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Dining

Dine \Dine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dined; p. pr. & vb. n. Dining.] [F. d[^i]ner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr. an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See Jejune, and cf. Dinner, D?jeuner.] To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.

Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep.
--Shak.

To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.

Dining

Dining \Din"ing\, n. & a. from Dine, a.

Note: Used either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, dining hall or dining-hall, dining room, dining table, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dining

c.1400, verbal noun from dine (v.). Dining room is attested from c.1600.

Wiktionary
dining

n. 1 eat dinner as a social function. 2 entertain someone to dinner. vb. (present participle of dine English)

WordNet
dining

n. the act of eating dinner

Usage examples of "dining".

She settled him under the arbor in the garden behind the house, and hastened out to the dining area to bring cool drinks for both of them.

Todd pulled his father to the dining room table at which so many happier conferences had been held, snagged a chair back, and guided his father to sit.

When Todd and the company had departed to investigate the strange spaceship, Hrrestan's assistant had addressed the remainder of the delegates left in the dining room.

Honey stepped forward, gesturing to two of the other males to enter the dining room.

Barnstable pulled a chair away from the dining table and sank into it.

He mumbled something about checking urgent data, but stumbled out of the dining area, past the office, and out of the house.

After that, each of the others claimed time with her in the common dining recreation room, and filtered through her office, to pass the time between shifts, making her feel very welcome.

Glamorous holographs, usually taken of the dining room, the entertainment complex, or the shopping arcades of each line's vessels, hung in the air, as Tee and Lunzie compared price, comfort, and schedule.

Some seemed to have forgotten not only which stations they were assigned to, but where the dining hall was.

In a cave just next to the doors in the dining room, a knot of costumed cavedwellers huddled together over a stick fire.

More passengers appeared, trying to shove past them into the dining hall, yelling.

Don escorted the woman and child into the dining room and saw them onto a capsule.

The crowd, now more frantic than before, rushed into the dining hall around Perkin, who was nearly collapsing.

As she rounded the first landing, she found herself in the way of another crowd of frantic passengers running down, heading to the dining hall from their cabins.

Only half visible in the gloom, the metal blast doors rolled slowly, inexorably closed on the empty dining hall.